438 GARDEN PLANTS. Fuu'll, 



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lettuce-green leaves, which alone constitute its ornamental cha- 

 racter. The climate of Calcutta seems too cold for it to acquire 

 the verdant condition essential to its beauty. About Bombay it 

 is often grown in large tubs, kept during the Cold months under 

 the shelter of the verandah, where it has a very refreshing and 

 agreeable appearance. 



Mirabilis. 



1. M. Jalapa MAKVEL OF PERU Gool-i-ubl>ds. A large ard 

 very common herbaceous plant, found in gardens in all parts . 

 India ; constantly in blossom with numerous ipomo3a-like flowers 

 of moderate size, some dark crimson, some pure yellow, some 

 crimson striped with yellow ; flowers of each variety frequently 

 upon the same plant ; produces seed abundantly, from which it 

 commonly springs up self-sown. 



2. M. longiflora. SWEET-SCENTED MARVEL OF PERU. DC 

 scribed as bearing white flowers with a tube four or five inches 

 long, and emitting a powerful odour like that of Orange-flowers 

 and Heliotrope combined. Dr. Voigt states that it was in the 

 Calcutta Botanical Gardens seven years without blossoming. 



AMAEANTACE^E. 



Achyranthes. 



A. alopecuroides. A small herbaceous plant, ornamental for 

 the foxtail-like heads of small milk-white flowers it bears, which 

 give a very pretty efiect when mingled with others in a bouquet ; 

 raised from seed. 



Mrm. 



JE. sanguinolenta. A small herbaceous plant, with leaves and 

 stems of a dull-red colour ; a weedy, by no means attractive 

 object. 



Ire sine. 



1. I. Herbstii. With small dark crimson leaves ; and 2. 

 I. aureo-reticulata, plants of little interest except for edgings to 

 flower-beds. Alternanthera amabilis, and A. paronychyoides are 

 of recent introduction. 



